Adam, ecstasy, XTC, go, disco biscuit, cristal, hug drug
(noun) street names for methylenedioxymethamphetamine
ecstasy, rapture, transport, exaltation, raptus
(noun) a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion; “listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture”- Charles Dickens
ecstasy, rapture
(noun) a state of elated bliss
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Ecstasy (uncountable)
(slang) Alternative letter-case form of ecstasy (“drug”)
• cytases
ecstasy (countable and uncountable, plural ecstasies)
Intense pleasure.
A state of emotion so intense that a person is carried beyond rational thought and self-control.
A trance, frenzy, or rapture associated with mystic or prophetic exaltation.
(obsolete) Violent emotion or distraction of mind; excessive grief from anxiety; insanity; madness.
(slang) The drug MDMA, a synthetic entactogen of the methylenedioxyphenethylamine family, especially in a tablet form.
(medicine, dated) A state in which sensibility, voluntary motion, and (largely) mental power are suspended; the body is erect and inflexible; but the pulse and breathing are not affected.
• (the drug): MDMA, molly; (Modern Vernacular) E, eckie, ecky, XTC, X, thizz
• (intense pleasure): agony
ecstasy (third-person singular simple present ecstasies, present participle ecstasying, simple past and past participle ecstasied)
(intransitive) To experience intense pleasure.
(transitive) To cause intense pleasure in.
• cytases
Source: Wiktionary
Ec"sta*sy, n.; pl. Ecstasies. Etym: [F. extase, L. ecstasis, fr. Gr. Ex-, and Stand.] [Also written extasy.]
1. The state of being beside one's self or rapt out of one's self; a state in which the mind is elevated above the reach of ordinary impressions, as when under the influence of overpowering emotion; an extraordinary elevation of the spirit, as when the soul, unconscious of sensible objects, is supposed to contemplate heavenly mysteries. Like a mad prophet in an ecstasy. Dryden. This is the very ecstasy of love. Shak.
2. Excessive and overmastering joy or enthusiasm; rapture; enthusiastic delight. He on the tender grass Would sit, and hearken even to ecstasy. Milton.
3. Violent distraction of mind; violent emotion; excessive grief of anxiety; insanity; madness. [Obs.] That unmatched form and feature of blown youth Blasted with ecstasy. Shak. Our words will but increase his ecstasy. Marlowe.
4. (Med.)
Definition: A state which consists in total suspension of sensibility, of voluntary motion, and largely of mental power. The body is erect and inflexible; the pulsation and breathing are not affected. Mayne.
Ec"sta*sy, v. t.
Definition: To fill ecstasy, or with rapture or enthusiasm. [Obs.] The most ecstasied order of holy . . . spirits. Jer. Taylor.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
30 November 2024
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